Prognosis
There is an cure rate of 65-90% from the initial treatment of the infection.
Possible reasons for treatment failure include:
- auto-infection
- re-infection
- failure to use treatment correctly
- presence of predisposing factors e.g. diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression etc.
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